Science Ficiton movies fortold future. Eeire, man.

[ochazuke]

Recently, a 10th planet was discovered. In the movie K-Pax, the Jeff Bridges character mentions 'the nine planets', and the Kevin Spacey character (who said he's from another planet) said 'actually, it's ten'.

Another one:

The Cassini probe picked up radio emmissions from Saturn. Converted into sound, it was a lot like the "space music" of the 1950s, a la "Forbidden Planet".

Co-ull

Saturn sounds: http://cassini.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/cassini/SKR1/SKR-03-324.wav

edit: to correct spelling. "co-ull" stays.

[flowomo]

1. Ireland, man?

[TahitiNut]

4. He means "Lake Eire" I think.

:silly: :dunce: You know - the green one.

[flowomo]

6. sheesh... and I'm from Pennsylvania!

how could I miss THAT??

[longship]

7. Well, it could be that.

The lake is spelled "Erie" not "Eire".

But I think the poster really meant, "eerie".

[flowomo]

9. you're kidding!

no wonder I could never find it on a map!

[TahitiNut]

14. Well, d'oh?!

I guess "the green one" wasn't a big enough clue, huh? :eyes:

[anarch]

13. I believe this poster meant "irie, mon"

[James T. Kirk]

2. 10th planet in other SF sources

It was mentioned in "Star Blazers" back in the 1970s. It was beyond Yuggoth, oops, I mean Pluto.

[YOY]

8. I think Mi-go puppetry could explain alot of the current administration!

:silly: :silly: :silly: :silly:

[Terran]

15. Either that or

something like the situation in "They Live" (except those aliens were probably smart enough not to make the economy implode).

[YOY]

17. Where is Rowdy Roddy Piper when we need him???

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[xray s]

3. and earth being ruled by apes

ruled by one ape now

[rurallib]

10. An icredibly stupid ape who can't even ride a bike

like his brethren in the circus.

[ochazuke]

12. Right: Apes. Not 'rangs or chimps

People call Bush a chimp. That's unfair to Cornelius and ... Kim Hunter's character.

He's more like James Gregory's ape. You know, the one that went on and on about raw, naked POW-ER!!

Must have been a member of PNAC.

[James T. Kirk]

5. More:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_X#Planet_X_in_fiction

[TimeChaser]

11. I say we name it

Nyx, to follow the whole Roman god theme

[JHB]

16. It's been suspected for decades

All the outer planets were found by astronomers noticing some "wobbles" in the known planets' orbits that couldn't be accounted for by the known ones. Wobbles in Saturn's orbit provided the clues to find Uranus, Uranuses wobbles, gave clues to Neptune, But while Pluto was found, it wasn't enough to account for Neptunes' wobbles: ergo -- the possibility that "Planet X" was still waiting to be found.